Thursday, October 17, 2013

Aimee's Babies-First Year Milestones & Baby Massage and Developmental Exercises for your Baby

My husband recently won First Year Milestones from a Friends blog. When we spoke to Aimee about receiving it, I asked her to check out my blog as well. She did and asked me to write a review on Baby Massage and Developmental Exercises for your baby. How could I turn it down! I mean someone wanted me to check something out for them.

Tonight I watched both of the DVDs and I was so excited and thought I would share some info on both of them with you.

First Year Milestones has five chapters to it. Introduction, Newborn, Three - four months, Six-nine Months, and Twelve Months. You can watch all five chapters or skip to the chapter/milestone that your baby is at. I did watch all of the chapters tonight even thought my son is already four and a half months old. I found all of the DVD very helpful. I learned things to do to help develop certain milestones. It also tells you things to look for that he should be doing and what to do if he isn't doing certain things. One of the points that stuck out to me in the three to four month was that carrying a baby in your arms or a baby carrier can reduce the baby's crying by 20%. I have heard this before but wasn't sure it was true. This reaffirmed this. Another thing the video talked about was baby massage to help develop the sense of touch, and it can help with tummy troubles. This is something that our doctor told us to do to help our son. (One of the reasons I am very excited for the next DVD.) I loved the baby boot camp at the end of each chapter. This was exercises you can do with them. I am sure I will be watching the six to nine months a few more times when bubba gets to that stage. I found this to be a very helpful DVD.

Baby Massage and Developmental Exercises for your Baby has three chapters to it. Senses, Position and Space, and Baby Massage. You can watch all three chapters at a time or pick which one you would like to watch, just like the other DVD. There was a lot of helpful information. I absolutely loved the baby massage part. She tells you what to do and shows you. I found the pace of it perfect that if you wanted to watch it and do the massage on you baby at the same time. I am very excited to try the I love you part of the massage on my son when he gets gassy the next time. This is one of the most help instructional videos for baby massage that I have found.

You can find both of these DVDs at http://www.aimeesbabies.com along with some other DVDs. She also has a bunch of apps to help with baby development. You can find it on FaceBook too https://www.facebook.com/Aimeesbabies. Check them out I promise you wont be disappointed!

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Foell In Love Creations

Looking for a homemade item, check out Foell in Love Creations. My sister had her do a corn on the cob out fit for her friends baby who is due any day now, and an Elf hat for my son. The other day I was scrolling through her pictures and noticed this Giants baby blanket toy. I sent her a message asking if she could make a Yankees one.


She said she could. This is how it turned out...



I am in love. She has also done a tractor, purse, dog, snake, dish clothes, and many more. Check out her FaceBook page Www.facebook.com/foellinlove and send her a message! I promise you wont be disappointed!

Are you a crunchy parent?

Recently I have been seeing this all over a ton of pages I belong to on FaceBook. I am a crunchy parent, I am not a crunchy, I am more crunchy than not. I would read this and think what the heck are they talking about. Am I a crunchy parent?

After reading lots of things on those pages I learned a few things about "crunchy parenting" and I still wanted to learn more so I started researching. Here is a list of things that I have found that are considered "crunchy"

*Breastfeeding (and extended breastfeeding)
*Baby Wearing
*Cloth diapering
*Attachment Parenting
*Co-Sleeping
*Vegan
*Homeschooling
*All natural products
*Plastic Free
*No circumcision
*Natural, Water, and Home births
*No crying it out
*No spanking
*Midwife care
*Delayed cord clamping
*Organic
*Views vary on Vaccines (delayed, selective and none)
*Homemade

I am sure there are many more things and that these vary. After doing this research I have learned that our family is a little crunchy. There are a few things on this list that we do. Breastfeeding is one. How long we will do it, I am not sure. We baby wear, but we also use a stroller or leave him in his car seat and put that in the cart while shopping. We did and want to try again the cloth diapering. We had a great new born cover but the one size ones he keeps leaking through so we stopped for a while. We will also will always use disposable ones at the sitters and probably when we travel. Our son does use glass and plastic bottles. We are trying to stop using the plastic ones though. Homemade, I am not sure what they mean by this but I do plan on trying to make his baby food. It seems much better for him. Co-sleeping  happens once in a while but is something we try not to do. Not because I don't like it or don't want to but the dangers scare me.

Are you a crunch parent?